Our wills are ours, we know not how;
Our wills are ours, to make them Thine.
What matters happiness?
Duty! There’s man’s one moment:
This is yours.
It is a great thing to have God for master and to own it. The trouble with too many of us is we try to be our own master. We make sorry work of it, too, whenever we take into our own hands the direction of our life. There is only one safe place to leave it – in the hands of God.
St. Paul packs into one terse sentence a whole volume of practical teaching when he says, “Ye are not your own; ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God.” It is not easy for us with our proud human nature to confess that we really are not our own. We like to feel that we are independent beings. We are loath to call any one master. Many of us resent even God’s claim to ownership in us, and deny His right to command us.
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